I use the sourceforge ipw2200 stuff - never could get the kernel stuff to work, even on simple networks.
bunyip ~ # esearch ipw2200 [ Results for search key : ipw2200 ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * net-wireless/ipw2200 Latest version available: 1.1.3 Latest version installed: 1.1.3 Size of downloaded files: 399 kB Homepage: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters License: GPL-2 * net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware Latest version available: 3.0 Latest version installed: 3.0 Size of downloaded files: 791 kB Homepage: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ Description: Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG miniPCI and 2225BG PCI adapters License: ipw2200-fw The above works! It might also be a good idea to bypass as much as possible of gentoos networking scripts (from experience, esp /etc/conf.d/net), at least until you get a working setup, then you can roll the changes back in and test as you go. They just do not work well when you have a dozen or more networks using vpn's, wireless. wired, wep, plain and wpa - mainly I think because of the way its documented means that while they tell you how to do many things, they dont tell you how or why, so its too easy to shoot oneself in the foot. I suspect they are trying to be all things to every possible combination, and fail dismally with wireless and laptops! And until I found a udev workaround, multiple network cards in a server :( BillK On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:53 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I'll throw two chickens in one pot. > > I have recently installed ubuntu on another partition in the mainly > gentoo gateway laptop I've been running for over a year with great -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list